DIRECTOR and actor Fifth Solomon was rushed to the emergency room after suffering a mental breakdown allegedly triggered by online bullying.
In a Facebook post, Solomon shared that his sister actress Chariz Solomon accompanied him to the hospital.
“I’m okay now. I’m in the ER with my sister. Balitang Inaaaaa! I had a mental breakdown because of the online bullying. Thanks to all the people who reached out,” he wrote.
He also addressed some of the insults thrown at him online, including “retokada,” “flop,” “baliw,” “mental hospital,” “DDS,” “incerun,” and “too fem.”
“Call me names. Laugh all you want. I’ve heard worse. Survived worse. I grew up with no blueprint, no guidance, no safety net. So I taught myself how to fight, how to bite back. The world isn’t kind. I stopped trying to be,” he wrote.
“Truth is, we all like to play clean but live dirty. Most of us enjoy watching others fall. Let’s not pretend.”
Solomon ended his post with a message to his critics: “You can’t bring me down. Only the people I love have that power. And even then, I’ll still get up. I know who I am. I know what I’m worth. No one gets to rewrite that.”
He also clarified his political stance: “I don’t want to explain myself to people I don’t know, but if you want an answer, no I’m not DDS, I’m not also Kakampink. I’m just pretty.”